Design & Boutique Crew Home Boutique Santa Maria Novella is a high-level accommodation facility in the heart of Florence. Home Boutique Santa Maria Novella is a high-level accommodation facility in the heart of Florence. What is important to us is to make you live a unique and genuine experience that celebrates Italian excellence by offering its guests rooms furnished with taste and an Italian courtesy of yesteryear. Home Boutique is located in the heart of Florence, in the historic center on the second and third floor of a building built in 1600, of only three floors. Home Boutique is located on the second and third floors of a 400-year-old building, with no lift. All the palaces in Via della Scala were built to accommodate pilgrims who traveled along the Via Francigena in the Middle Ages and stopped in Florence . Via Della Scala is dedicated to the Scala di San Gregorio , protector of pilgrims and all travelers. In the perpendicular street there is the elementary school of the Orti Oricellari , famous because, among many others, a very young Niccolò Macchiaveli studied there. We are in Via Della Scala, at number 67, in a street with a strong tourist vocation. Already in 1500 the buildings of Via Della Scala housed the accommodation for pilgrims who traveled the Via Francigena, protected by the Scala di San Gregorio to which the street is dedicated. Home Boutique Santa Maria Novella is just a few steps from the beautiful Basilica of Santa Maria Novella and the train station of the same name and is in a strategic position for anyone wishing to visit Florence. In 10 minutes on foot you reach Piazza Della Repubblica and the Duomo . A pleasant 20 minute walk will take you to the Ponte Vecchio or in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Piazza Della Signoria . All our rooms with private bathroom are dedicated to great Italian Myths and Icons. Choosing Home Boutique will be like being surrounded by the elegance, style and hospitality typical of "Made in Italy". The Vespa, the Cinquecento, Pavarotti or Fellini are just some of the icons we have chosen and which have helped to create and idealize Italy, the cradle of passion, luxury, elegance and absolute genius. It is from this inspiration that Home Boutique Santa Maria Novella wants to offer its guests a unique, original and genuine stay, in the city cradle of the Italian Renaissance. Florence. All the rooms of Home Boutique, as well as the common areas, the Lounge, the Library and the Kitchen, have been recently and finely refurbished following high quality standards. Some details were made to measure by renowned Florentine artisans. The library, at the complete disposal of guests, offers figurative books that evoke the stories of Italians famous throughout the world. Staying at the Home Boutique Santa Maria Novella will be like living your own elegant and refined home in Florence; you will be embraced by genuine, familiar and “taylor made” Italian hospitality.